Gust Hagberg (born 1873) was a
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Immigrant to the
Arrowhead Region
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of
Minnesota
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during the late 19th century. Hagberg lived along the eastern end of the Duluth & Northern Minnesota Railway (Alger-Smith Line), where it passed northwest of Little Cascade Lake.
[Wolff, Julius F. "Some Vanished Settlements of the Arrowhead Country." ''Minnesota History.'' v. 34, p. 183]
/ref> He was known by the name Jockmock, derived from the name of his hometown of Jokkmokk
Jokkmokk () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Jokkmokk Municipality in Norrbotten County, provinces of Sweden, province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland, Sweden, with 2,786 inhabitants in 2010. The Lule Sámi name of the place (compos ...
in Norrbotten
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, Sweden
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.Cook County, Minnesota
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: Gust Lake, the source of the Poplar River,[Upham, Warren. Minnesota Geographic Names, Their Origin and Significance. p. 145. Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volume 17. 1920.] Jock Mock Lake, which lies nearby but is a tributary to the Cascade River and Jock Mock Bay on Lake Brule.
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1870s births
20th-century deaths
Swedish emigrants to the United States
People from Cook County, Minnesota
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